25 records matched your query       

Author:

Diamond, Jared M.

Title:

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

480 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social evolution.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.
Historia.
Geografia (historia)
Geologia historica.
Évolution sociale.
Civilisation--Histoire.
Ethnologie.
Homme--Influence de l'environnement.
Diffusion culturelle.
Homme--Influence sur la nature.
Cultuur.
Sociale evolutie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.

Contents:

Future of human history as a science. From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- Natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- Rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- Future of human history as a science.

ISBN:

0393317552 (pbk.)
9780393317558 (pbk.)
9780393317558 (pbk.) :
0393317552 (pbk.) :

LCCN:

96037068

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

DXPB423 -- Dr. Grace O. Doane Alden Public Library (Alden)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

TNPD062 -- Belle Plaine Community Library (Belle Plaine)

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

DRPC413 -- Britt Public Library (Britt)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

MWPB943 -- Dayton Public Library (Dayton)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

SBPB074 -- Dunkerton Public Library (Dunkerton)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

APPC546 -- Wilson Memorial Library (Keota)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

RTPA135 -- J.J. Hands Library (Lohrville)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

JNPC081 -- Leonard A. Good Community Library (Ogden)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)

RKPA371 -- Rippey Public Library (Rippey)

NLPA993 -- Rowan Public Library (Rowan)

PBPC546 -- Sigourney Public Library (Sigourney)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

VSSX062 -- Vinton-Shellsburg CSD (Vinton)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

58SX745 -- West Bend-Mallard High School (West Bend)